Another tyrant finally relents
Sri Lanka's former army chief walked free from jail on Monday with a pardon from President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who appears to have bowed to growing international demands that he release his highest-profile rival.
Fonseka fell out with the government and was imprisoned after a failed presidential bid against former ally Rajapaksa two years ago.
Arrested by soldiers who had been under his own command, Fonseka was stripped of his rank as a four-star general.
Rajapaksa has until now defied U.N. and U.S. criticism of his record, but local analysts say Fonseka's release is partly aimed at distracting attention from complaints about poor economic management.
Rights groups say both Fonseka and the president are implicated in shooting Tamil fighters as they sought to surrender.
Well perhaps its just that this guy choose not to lick the behinds of the rulers of the day and that may have been reason enough to lock him up.
Politrics
Sarath Fonseka could have been a hero,a legend never to be forgotten in Sri lanka, commanading utmost repect not only for him but for many genertaions to come,had he not gone against the powerful MR and his brothers...it was an ill advised move with failure return all over, the moment he ran against MR...its was a ploy probably by the opposition to try to have someone powerful in their ranks to stand up in an election rather than the best losing politician of all time, Ranil wickramasinghe...
HURAYYYY!!!
Politics is a dirty business. One moment a hero. The next, zero:0(